Career Summary

Biography

Richard worked in a range of operations, logistics, freight forwarding and transport management roles for 13 years in West Africa and the United Kingdom before beginning an academic career in 2002 at the then Institute of Marine Studies (now the Centre for International Shipping and International Logistics), University of Plymouth, England.

In 2004, Richard moved to Australia to take up the role of Lecturer at the then School of International Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane from 2004 to 2009. Richard has been lecturing Operations Management, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management and International Business Operations at the Newcastle Business School University of Newcastle in Australia since 2009. He has undertaken research projects and published research in the area of logistics for disaster relief, humanitarian logistics and disaster operations management in leading refereed international journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics (ABDC A* ranked), the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (ABDC A ranked), and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (ABDC A ranked).

Richard won the first competitive seed corn funding for research into Humanitarian Logistics by the then Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport UK in 2001. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. Richard has won several Australian and international prizes and awards for his teaching and research, most recently the Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award (2013) and the Highly Commended thesis award in the 2013 Emerald/European Fund for Management Development Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. In September 2014 Richard was awarded the prestigious DB Schenker Award for Outstanding Research in Logistics for his research: "The Implications and Limitations of Commercial Supply Chain Management Process Models and Frameworks for Disaster Relief."

In recognition of his significant contribution to maintaining the highest standards of scholarly work throughout 2014, Richard was voted an Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Emerald Literati Network 2015 Awards for Excellence

Administrative ExpertiseProgram Convenor Bachelor of Business Assistant Program Convenor Bachelor of Business

CollaborationsRichard has on-going research collaboration in the area of disaster response logistics with collaborators at the Institute of Transport Logistics at the Technical University of Dortmund (TU Dortmund, Germany), the Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics in Dortmund (Germany) (Professor Uwe Clausen's Group); and the Humanitarian Logistics Institute at the Hanken University in Finland with Professors Gyongyi Kovacs and Karen Spens. Richard also has on-going research collaboration in the area of humanitarian and disaster response logistics with scholars at the Indian Institute of Management in Raipur (India) (Professor Bidya Sahay) and the New Rail Research Hub at the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England (with Dr Dewan Islam's group) as well as the Fore School of Management, New Delhi, India (A/Prof Mohita G. Sharma and A/Prof Roma Mitra Debnath). Dr Richard Oloruntoba is the driver of other collaborative research projects such as with: Dr Beverly Wagner of Strachlyde University Glasgow on sustainable supply chains and early stages in innovation in technologically-intensive businesses; and with Dr Goke Oke of Arizona State University, Tempe on innovation in humanitarian logistics and supply chains.

Oloruntoba RO, 'The Relationship Between Politics and Religion in Nigeria: A Not So Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?', Not So Strange Bedfellows, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne 168-183 (2013) [B1]